Books: Ex-Nun's Story

THE CALLED AND THE CHOSEN (306 pp.) −Monica
Baldwin−Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.95).

Monica Baldwin is an ex-nun. The cousin of England's onetime Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a Roman Catholic
contemplative order in 1914, left it with a papal rescript in 1941 when
she finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to
be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost
equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap
Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30,...